Yeah we all hear the main arguments... AI is bad because of slop content, stealing from creators, brain rot & brain damage, privacy concerns and most importantly... how billionaires are just using it for their own selfish reasons
But I'm asking about YOU 🫵 personally. The individual. What do you really think about AI? Do you care or are you indifferent? Has it actually affected your day to day life?
I think it's a really useful tool that's made my life easier and allows me to explore a lot of ideas I was just too lazy to do before. I have like nearly a decade worth of half baked software project ideas, and I just never had the energy to work on them or finish ones I started. With LLMs, I can actually get them working to the point where I can see the idea in action which is really enjoyable for me. It's also made my work easier where I can focus more on things I find interesting and delegate tedious tasks to the agent.
I do look forward to a time where we can run these tools entirely locally though. I do not like being dependent on company services or sending my data to them. And in general I see this as the real negative aspect of how this technology is being developed. We don't want to end up in a situation where tools we rely on day to day are owned by a handful of corporations. Regular people need to own the means of production in the digital realm. Currently, anybody with a computer can do any type of digital work be it writing documents, design, programming, etc. But if we start relying on LLMs as a core part of our workflow, then that tool also needs to be run locally or we end up as digital serfs.